Memory leak with dev_add_pack()
Daniel Baluta
daniel.baluta at gmail.com
Sun Jan 23 08:03:18 EST 2011
Hi Spiro,
> While it essentially works as I want it to, I found that I am leaking
> memory this way. Having this module in a highly loaded network,
> "head -n5 /proc/meminfo" shows that MemFree is steadily falling, until
> the kernel OOPS with an out of memory condition.
Have you considered using kmemleak [1] to help your debugging?
thanks,
Daniel.
[1] http://lxr.linux.no/linux+v2.6.37/Documentation/kmemleak.txt
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